I have never used Auto-Tune in a live television performance, and I have never used Auto-Tune in any of my concerts. That is a promise.
If you've followed us from when we started playing live in October 2010, you will notice that there has been numerous changes over the years.
It was really strange for me when I started to play concerts in America where the audiences were all sitting down.
I've been playing live since I was in sixth grade.
Sometimes if you're in the studio for a very long time, you want to get out and play live shows and vice versa.
When everything is together - the band, me, the audience, it's boss! It's just like magic.
I love music. I love going out dancing.
My first concert was Boyz II Men and Mariah Carey.
A concert is always like a feast day to me.
Widespread Panic discovered a couple of my songs and started doin' 'em on the gigs. They'd take a song and expand it and everybody plays a long time and people really like that. But I made my living as a songwriter so I try to get to singin' and get it over with.
The live setting is always better for me. I usually thrive at live. I feel like having a band behind me and being able to interact with the crowd helps boost my energy up.
Doing the acoustic at Carnegie is basically advised because electric music tends to get, let's just say, acoustically unsound.
I am the audience. I want to observe people. Even when I'm playing drums onstage, I'm watching people. I'm looking at them and their faces and their T-shirts and their signs. And travelling by motorcycle, especially, the world is just coming at me.
I'm a working travelling musician, but just on a bigger scale.
When you tour, you regain the music and the connection with the audience.
We did 300 shows in our first two years.
I regularly go to concerts with my children sharing the music.
I saw B.B. King in concert one time where he had this guy that would bring him out a glass of water and towel to wipe his forehead with.
I love playing live, and doing big TV shows are exciting.
When I heard Monk in person in 1955, he was playing with a quartet in a small club. The place was full of musicians, but there was no public at all.
I just want to play music with a band, live.
The stage is the best experience in the world. It's a great compliment to be able to share the music, because people can hear my album but they don't get to make the connection in the same way as when it's one-to-one.
You can go on 'Saturday Night Live' now and not even play live.
Looking back, we had the hard time, but the privilege, of actually coming up playing biker bars and little bitty college bars.
Unlike film and TV, theater is a luxury object, but one that ordinary middle-class people can still afford. Above all, it isn't a mass medium: Live theater is a small-scale, handmade art form. Intimacy is what makes it special.
